Will the 6th generation iPods have built in WiFi capabilities similar to the Microsoft Zune mp3 player? Reports are coming in today that this may be the case. Engadget seems to think it’s a strange move putting WiFi in the iPod when its one of the more desired features of the iPhone, something that could hurt or slow iPhone sales.

Will Apple embrace the WiFi sharing feature sooner, rather than later? Looks like we’ll have to wait until Q3 of 2007 to find out.

Did you know that you can play Nintendo NES games on your iPod? iNES is a port of another NES emulator called InfoNES to the iPod to allow *legal* NES ROMS to be played on the iPod. Currently there are about 6 games that work with it in fullscreen mode. The 5.5G video iPod, 5G video iPod, iPod photo, and the 1G iPod nano all work with iNES, but it’s a little sketchy on the older iPod photo models. iNES uses iPodLinux so it’s a little bit of a hack and probably not for novices.

For more information on iNES you can view their Wiki page.

After spending a few hundred dollars on an iPod should you spend a little more money on some nicer headphones or earbuds? We’ve been asking ourselves this for awhile, so we recently put some different earbuds and headphones to the test. First off, we want to say that we think earbuds and headphones serve different purposes. If your somewhere noisy, like a plane or a car, we’ve found headphones to be much more appropriate. If your walking around a city and want something as small as possible to fit in your pockets, this is where earbuds come in handy. For our complete review of the models we tested keep reading below.

The standard Apple Earbuds

These are the standard earbuds from Apple that come standard with iPods. Is there anything terribly wrong with them? Not really. In our tests we found that they don’t do the best job drowning out background noise. The higher end Bose headphones and earbuds are designed specifically for these purposes, which is why they cost a pretty penny. While the Apple earbuds are fairly rugged, we’ve broken a few pairs over the years that we’ve owned iPods.

Apple iPod In-Ear Earbuds

The Apple In-Ear Earbuds are a small step up from the standard earbuds included with your iPod as they go deeper into your ear and drown out more of the background noise. We found that over an extended amount of time they got to be a little uncomfortable, but these headphones provide great sound, nice bass and treble, at a reasonable price. We haven’t had these earbuds long enough to know if they last any longer than the standard iPod earbuds.

Bose In-Ear Earbuds

The Bose In-Ear earbuds are definitely a step up from the Apple branded earbuds, featuring the Bose’s proprietary TriPort acoustic headphone structure! Right away you’ll notice that they’re nice and soft, which as a result makes them more comfortable over extended listening sessions. The sound quality is top notch, and they block out a little more background noise than the Apple earbuds. These earbuds come with three different sized tips, which helps if you have a small ear or a big ear. Be careful that you don’t lose them though!

If you’ve got $100 to spend on some headphones, then we definitely recommend the Bose In-Ear Earbuds. If you’ve got $159 to spend on earbuds, then you might want to check out the holy grail of earbuds and go with the Bang & Olufsen A8 Headphones.

Bose Triport Headphones

Even though these may be the low end Bose headphones, there is nothing low end about these! These headphones are a lot smaller than the big, bulky headphones we’re used to from the days of Walkmans. At just $139 they are cheaper than a lot of the high end Sony headphones. For years we wanted to test these headphones out because we heard such good things about them, and now we know why. They provide better sound than any earbud can produce and better sound than most headphones for that matter! They’re very soft and we’re great for us during long jam-out sessions with our iPods! There’s nothing bad to be said about these headphones.

Bose QuietComfort 3 Noise Cancelling Headphones

These headphones are absolutely amazing! The price tag may scare off a lot of people, but if you’re like us and travel frequently then these headphones are everything you’ve ever wanted. What finally drove us to buy a pair of these headphones was a cross country flight with two crying babies in our area. If you want to completely drown out background noise you won’t find a better headphone. It’s amazing what these headphones can do. Crying babies and jet plane engines are no match for the Bose QuietComfort 3 headphones. These headphones are a little bulky, but for the features that these things have, we don’t mind. It’s a little weird that you have to charge these headphones every 20 hours (of use) or so, but if that’s what it takes for peace and quiet, then it’s a small price to pay.

We love Bose and these headphones remind us why. On a scale of 1 to 10, we give these headphones an 11!

If your looking for a place to buy any of these earbuds/headphones or want to read more reviews, check out Amazon.com.

Nobody likes paying more than they have to for things. So we found the 6 cheapest (reputable) sites to buy brand new 30Gb video iPods from. If your in the market for a new iPod we think you’ll find our list useful!

eBay.com Brand new 30GB iPods can be found for as low as $199 plus shipping!
B&H 30GB iPod $237.00 + free shipping
Amazon.com Direct 30GB iPod $237.99 + free shipping
Amazon.com J&R Music 30GB iPod $234.88 + $6.35 shipping
Amazon.com Pavilion Electronics 30GB iPod $236.99 + $10.94 shipping
MacMall.com 30GB iPod $237.48 + $11.45 shipping

Today Apple proudly announced that they have sold their 100 millionth iPod. This makes the iPod the fastest selling music player of any kind, since the iPod was released only 5 and a half years ago.

That’s a lot of iPods Congratulations Apple!

What’s hot with Apple right now? The AppleTV. It’s everywhere! Every electronics site on the internet is talking about it. We had the chance to check it out at Apple’s new New York City Apple Store and it was pretty cool. The monitors they had it hooked up to were super high res and most of the movies on there played back nicely. But the real reason there’s so much buzz around the AppleTV is because people are hacking the crap out of it! People are doing things we never would have thought of with it and have even turned it into a full fledged desktop computer. For $299 you can’t beat the price!

Just this week Apple introduced 8-core Mac Pro desktop workstations! That’s some serious processing power!

There’s also a lot of talk about Adobe’s release of Creative Suite 3 for OS X. We’re looking forward to finally having a Universal Binary version of Photoshop that runs natively on Intel CPUs. It took Adobe almost two years to port CS over to Intel! So for any kind of graphics work, you’ll see a huge improvement with CS3.

The iPod shuffle must be doing really well this Spring because I’m seeing it everywhere. They were flying off the shelves at the Apple Story in New York. If you don’t already have some sort of iPod, you should look into the iPod shuffle because it’s only $79 now and holds 1GB of music.

Apple is one of the hottest companies of 2007. With all the attention Apple’s been getting lately there are more and more sites popping up covering everything Apple. So how do you weed out the junk and find the best Mac resources? Here’s our list of the 10 must have Apple links for when you need Apple news, information, software or help.

1. The Official Apple Discussion Forums are filled with thousands of Macintosh and iPod users from around the world. If you have any sort of question about your Apple product, this is the place to go.

2. The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has tons of Mac product info and plenty of tips and advice on everything Apple.

3. Digg is a social media site, where users submit stories and other users vote on which ones make the homepage. Apple is consistently one of the most popular topics.

4. VersionTracker is the best site for free third-party Apple applications and demos of shareware applications. If it’s not on VersionTracker, it’s probably not out there.

5. Apple’s Wikipedia entry provides a very nice, in depth, history of Apple Inc.

6. Macworld publishes a print magazine dedicated to Apple. These people eat, sleep, and breathe Mac.

7. MacRumor’s Buyers Guide lets you know when you should or shouldn’t buy you next piece of Apple hardware.

8. VLC for Mac OS X is what Quicktime should be. If you have any videos that you can’t play properly with Quicktime, then VLC is for you.

9. Technorati will help you find any Apple related news or tags across the entire Blogosphere.

10. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site where you can browse Apple sites bookmarked by users all around the world. The things you can find here are endless!

Kevin Garrad of the United States Military was on patrol in Iraq and was shot by an insurgant armed with an AK47. The iPod in Kevins left chest pocket actually slowed down the bullet enough that it didn’t completely penetrate his body armor. Kevin ended up suffering no wounds, but I’m sure he’s pretty shooken up over the attack! It’s amazing how much of a life saver an iPod can be these days!

This is a pretty amazing story, with even more amazing photos over at Flickr, where you can view the photo set! Let’s hope Apple’s PR people catch wind of this story and send him a free iPod.

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